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1: To the Yalta conference: from 1943 through January 1945 -- The politics of strategy in Europe -- The problem of the left and allied cooperation in Europe -- Italy and the restoration of order -- France: American policy and the ambiguities of reality -- Eastern Europe: the case of Poland -- Eastern Europe, II: diverse paths to security -- Eastern Europe, III: "with bow against bear" (October 1944 to January 1945) -- The Greek passion -- The political conditions of military strategy in the Far East -- The epic of China -- Planning for peace, I: general principles -- Planning for peace, II: Great Britain in theory and practice -- Planning for peace, III: the reintegration of Germany and Russia -- 2: From Yalta through Potsdam and the end of the war -- The Yalta conference: the effort to forge a political alliance -- Germany and the end of illusion -- Poland and Eastern Europe, 1945: realities versus objectives -- The European left, 1945: the politics of revolutionaries -- The united nations and American global interests -- The economics of victory -- Germany: revenge versus reintegration -- The Far East after Yalta: the dilemma of China and the future of Japan -- July 1945: the war with Japan and the Potsdam conference -- The Potsdam conference: the future of Europe and the end of a coalition -- The end of the war and the revolutionary tide in the Far East

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